The house, which is due for completion in August 2004, is a south
facing semi-detached residence on a 234m2 block in Clovelly, NSW.

The house meets best practice in both urban design and
environmental design within a complex and constrained site and brief.

The house, which has been designed to meet the very specific
spatial and accessibility needs of the client, incorporates a range of
innovations beyond the normal approaches of passive solar and
environmental design (solar hot water, full insulation of internal and
external walls and ceilings, solar pool heating, northern sun to living
areas, shading from western sun, zoning, appropriate landscaping)
including:onsite rainwater storage for 9000 litres used for showers, baths
and hand basin cold watera full grey water treatment system with treated water used for
the toilet and washing machinethermal chimneys / solar space heatingprovision for solar power generationuse of renewable materials (e.g. sustainable timber use)use of zero voc / bio paints and floor oils

The house retains and reuses all water on site other than black
water and is the first building in Australia to use a 'green wall, grey
water treatment system.

The house is an exemplar of the possibilities for high quality
environmental performance in difficult urban locations and has generated
considerable interest from a broad range of organizations including
Sydney Water, DIPNR and Randwick and Waverly Council.